Wednesday, 17 July 2013

Criminal Splatterings!

According
to Deadline.com,
both Tom Hank s and Ron Howard will return as star and director in the Dan
Brown novel Inferno. Sony, which has film rights to the franchise, has just set a December
18, 2015 release date. It also looks as if Hanks will reprise his
role as symbologist Robert Langdon in The Lost Symbol but it looks as if it will not be Ron Howard who
will direct it and The Lost Symbol is
currently on the backburner. More
information can also be found here
and here.

According
to Book2Book Jade Chandler, Commissioning Editor for Sphere has acquired UK and
Commonwealth rights from Lance Fitzgerald at Simon & Schuster US in Face Off, an unprecedented collaboration
between twenty-three of the world's bestselling crime writers in which the
authors' series characters meet in eleven co-written stories. More information about the deal can be found here. The collection will be published in June 2014.

According
to The
Guardian Ben Affleck is set to star as Nick in the lead role of the film
adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl.

Congratulations
go to the brilliant Jason Pinter who has according to Book2Book launched
a new digital publishing venture called Polis Books. The company will be publishing e-book
editions of new and backlist fiction in three genres: crime, under an imprint
called Vice; science fiction/fantasy, under an imprint called Elysium; and romance/erotica/commercial
women's fiction, under the Crave imprint.
The website www.polisbooks.com
will go live in around a month.

Former
MP Chris Mullin’s thriller The Year of the Fire Monkey has according to the Telegraph
been optioned by Paul Greengrass, who directed two of the Jason Bourne movies. The thriller, about a CIA sleeper in Tibet,
is set against the backdrop of the meeting between Chairman Mao and President
Nixon in 1972. It was first published in
1991 and has long been out of print.

Sam
Mendes is set to return to direct the next James Bond film. The next (yet unnamed) instalment is due to
be released on 23 October 2015. More information
can be found here.

Another
addition to Christopher Fowler’s Invisible
Ink: No 181 – Saved From Obscurity can be found here.